Did you see it run or drive it??
Did you see it run or drive it??
The piston will be fine, by the looks of the photo it looks worse than it is..
It MAY run fine, personally I wouldnt take the risk
You'll be kicking yourself if its goes wrong after the rebuild, end up costing you loads extra as well
No but spoke with the chap who was selling it and it was a running engine until he took it off the road to sort his shell out but then gave up on the build. Apart from the marks on the pistons everything else was spotless, no head damage, valves fine the whole shebang. So it's quite clear that the engine was being used.Originally Posted by Andy
I said the exact same thing to my mate when we took the pistons out 'they're fu*ked!' He said he couldn't see any reason not to use them but the engineers would be able to confirm that (place I took it to are his mates/works with them all the time so he isn't gonna bull**** me).
You are right, they look worse in the photo but not as bad in the flesh. When the lad who's gonna rebuild it sees it I guess he'll deffo confirm if they'll be ok. He's rebuilt countless LET's and even my mates one recently.
Still gonna clean em up though
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UPDATE
Popped to another Halfords branch today and found the set of plugs I was after - NGK BCR8ES - Price £13.49.
At the checkout handed over the trade card and BAM £4.95 lmao. They are currently gapped at 0.7mm so will need to be adjusted to 0.6mm.
And to help me do that are these
Not bad for £2.50 inc. p&p
Cleaned up piston 4 as well.
Will soon be having a chat with my mate to organise when I can drop the engine off to get it built back up.
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UPADTE
Nothing outstanding but I gont one of my xmas presents turn up today (better late than never
Can you guess what it is yet?
Thanks to my bro I now have a pipercross foam filter to fit the LET. Happy with it as the colour scheme will go well with the bay and I've read good reviews. Should do well as long as I can isolate it away from the heat.
Also gapped my plugs last night and only have 1 piston left to clean... yay!
Off tomorrow to visit local motorfactors for some cluth parts
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UPADTE
Got a few bits that I needed.
Firstly a metal plug cover which I got off W88rdy (cheers mate ) I've got a plastic one but haven't found anyone local that can plate plastic. So a metal one will do the trick.
I'll be putting the plastic one will be up for sale
I then had a bit of a brainwave... to keep things simple I've decided to mount the pump and filter using smaller lightweight motorsport type brackets. I had a quick look on ebay and found a couple bits that were perfect. Ordered the fuel pump bracket yesterday at 3:30pm and it arrived today at 9am... lovely!
Black alu bracket with two rubber absorbers - one for smaller pumps and one for larger. Fits like a glove with the Bosch pump
Also had a chat with my mate who helped me strip the LET. He spoke with his mate who helped him strip and rebuild his LET in his Cally DTM. Gave me a very good mates rates labour price to put the LET back together. Will be dropping the LET off to him in the coming week or so to get it built up.
Still waiting for the fuel filter bracket which is a simplified version of the above, a mountable stainless steel bracket to arrive. Will probably also be buying a second turbo as my mate sold his DTM recently but had a spare turbo which he fully rebuilt, shaft, seals, turbines - you name it he changed it. He'll give it to me just to cover parts costs. Need to arrange a day to take all the metal bits to the platers too. Time to get them sorted too!
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Got this in the post yesterday... a new bracket to hold the fuel filter.
Was planning to arrange to take the engine down to my mates mate but a good friend/colleague at work had just lost his dad so I'm covering shifts at the mo. When things get back to normal I'll be taking the weekend/few days off to drop it down to him.
'tis all for now.
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liking the fuel filter bracket and pump mount, you having the filter in the original place?
btw, what is it you do for a job? your always working!
Yeah having it in the same/original place but thought I'd simplfy the mount. Less parts easiler to remove etc.
I work for a well known mobile operator sales and tech. We have a team of 7 normally but currently due to numerous problems we have 3 people working at any one time. A few month back we had a team of 5 and only two of us were able to work at any one time. Hence, we doing mega overtime to cover shifts.
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